General Movies & TV Thread

[Jerroddragon]

Where disclosure day is good or not, I hope we can all agree the trailers aren’t helping get people to watch it

Like take out who directed it and this movie would have zero traction at all

I’ll probably just watch it when it comes to streaming, the reviews are so hit or miss. I assume it’s a film I could really get bored with, so I’ll just wait

 

[UNIrd]

I've been too busy to find out that reviews are mixed and people are disappointed before I saw it last night. I thought I was going to fall asleep before it started because... it'd been a day. But once the movie started, I was locked in. Pretty enthralled actually.

It takes zero time to get going and I was just curious about the why/what the entire time until the ending, which I thought was bold. Emily Blunt is just a force of an actress. I don't think she's ever been better than here. I hope she's not forgotten when Oscar time rolls around.

I saw it in IMAX, which not sure it was totally necessary considering the aspect ratio but picture and sound were excellent. I will say it was... nice to see an original story, that caused our group to debate some of the themes, what certain things meant, etc.

If you're expecting a summer blockbuster like Spielberg himself helped create (or in my case.. something more along the lines of War of the Worlds), this isn't that. But I REALLY enjoyed this little thriller. I recommend you go see it.

 

[RFRees]

I was not a fan of Disclosure Day.

Spoiler

The script and essence of the movie felt like a CW 2000s TV show.

The CGI was awful for a Spielberg movie, particularly the train/car crash and animals.

The story used generic and very dated tropes we've seen done hundreds of times in other media. The woman had the emotional powers and the man had logic powers; it's just, obvious and dull.

There were dozens of just, weird things that happened. Why didn't they jump out of the car before crashing into the train? Why didn't the bad guys just shoot them? Why didn't they blindfold the girl while they were sleeping? How did the networks immediately know the footage wasn't fake?

Also, why are we OK with a weird alien groomer?